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Defenestration Boulevard

by Lud

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1.
Garden 04:38
Four in the morning and all along this fevered trail All is calm and all is bright The stars are with us tonight And me? Thanks, I’m doing fine Holding my hands up Over my head one at a time There’s no waiting Waiting is over now And all I’ve got to do is drive [Unintelligible foreign lyric] All lives leave some love unknown You know what they say now when they say what they say you know [something] You know this country, out here when it’s late at night doesn’t act like much of an empire at all Just a broken, lonely string of lights through these hills and valleys that go on and on and on Where’s the common heart? [Unintelligible foreign lyric about life and truth] All lives leave some love unknown Swing wide the gate to the garden I’m coming home to you There’s no deciding Don’t need a reason When it’s what you do that matters It’s what you do that matters
2.
Strangers in the sky I’m not your enemy All the strangers in the sky And all the creatures of the deep blue sea They can hear a million voices How many of you have heard a million voices?
3.
Spent all morning in line for some government cheese It was a pretty good haul I got some butter, too Took it home and cut it up for the punks Maybe one of them was you Who’s to blame? Who’s to blame? Two thousand men and women under a railroad bridge Everyone swaying Two thousand God’s Bits of Wood scattered in the forest And we are singing hymns/ We’re just singing hymns Who’s to blame? Who’s to blame? ‘Cause I really want to talk to that man You can postmark this one Defenestration Boulevard Land of broken candy machines Where the old vets sleep outside on white flag nights If I have ever seen a sin, that’s a sin Who’s to blame? Who’s to blame? ‘Cause I really want to talk to that man
4.
Undaunted 02:41
They carried me back to the forbidden city Where the freemen and the horses pad the elegant payrolls And the winter’s long lesson is withering vengeance And I will be undaunted You can take some comfort in that I’ll remember the rivers rising Howling horizons and harsh, frozen silos The crumbling embattlements of the captains of industry Leave me undaunted You can take a little comfort in that In the long march I’m right here beside you I’ll hold you close in the dawn’s gritty light These times are slowly losing their purpose There in the distance You and me undaunted You can take a little comfort in that You and me undaunted Please take a little comfort in that
5.
Apalachicola 03:27
There are gray little pinpoints of light in the oyster shells in the depths of the delta Big River Apalachicola You’ve got courage, sanctity, nothing and dyslexia In Apalachicola I see a slow, strange train coming In Apalachicola
6.
When I sing my song The ghosts scatter When I sing my song The mountain whispers to me My only friend is my little pony My constant companion this mount beneath me High on this rock I watch the night afallin’ Tonight! my heart is filled with sorrow Tonight! my heart is filled with sorrow I miss my mama and my papa I miss my brothers killed in the war I wish that I too had been been killed in the war Still see the sword Still hear the gun Still taste the blood My blood When I sing my gong The ghosts scatter When I sing my song The mountain she whispers to me I miss my sister lost to this war That part of me and you spilled in the war I miss my blood I miss my blood I miss my blood
7.
Ramparts 03:26
I don’t want to seem like some kind of an alarmist, baby But there go the lights In my basement I hid a reticent marxist The old man sputtered and moaned But he didn’t do nothing about it All I hear are are some chants from you When’s anybody here gonna take a chance or two? If you’ve seen this before then you know that the coming regime brings a most unpleasant set of circumstances They’ve no brains or compassion A confederacy of dunces and asshole want to run this nation When the revolution comes I’ve got my gun They will come and then what’s done is done Traditionally in the night these things are done
8.
She held a locket of Kennedy and King Said Carry me home, Carry me home My soul is a witness/ Ninety nine years Some in better days/ Some in tears My soul is a witness/ To too much fear and rage You’ve got to turn it away/ You’ve got to turn it away As my soul is a witness Everybody needs heroes/ Even heroes have heroes When I was coming up They shot mine down You have to stand up for yourself And when something’s not right Say this isn’t right You have to stand up for yourself As my soul is a witness
9.
The Strangers In The Sky The Creatures Of The Deep Blue Sea They Can Hear A Million Voices How Many of You Can Hear A Million Voices?

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Bryon Settle -- Guitar Kirk Ross -- Guitar, Vocals
Sara Bell -- Bass, Vocals - Tim Salemy -- Drums, Percussion
John Harrison played keyboards on Strangers in the Sky
Jeb Bishop played trombone on Garden
Sara played a Hammond C3 on She Held a Locket
All songs written by Ross, Settle, Bell and Salemy
except Dark as a Dungeon, written by Merle Travis
Produced by Pete Weiss and Lud
Recorded by Pete Weiss in Orange County, North Carolina at Kudzu Ranch with overdubs at Seriously Adequate Studio.
Mixed at Verdant Studios in Vermont, USA
Mastered by Peter Linnane, Patch Hill Mastering
Cover by Ron Liberti

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released April 15, 2020

Bryon Settle -- Guitar Kirk Ross -- Guitar, Vocals
Sara Bell -- Bass, Vocals - Tim Salemy -- Drums, Percussion

John Harrison played keyboards on Strangers in the Sky
Jeb Bishop played trombone on Garden
Sara played a Hammond C3 on She Held a Locket
All songs written by Ross, Settle, Bell and Salemy
except Dark as a Dungeon, written by Merle Travis
Produced by Pete Weiss and Lud
Recorded by Pete Weiss in Orange County, North Carolina at Kudzu Ranch with overdubs at Seriously Adequate Studio.
Mixed at Verdant Studios in Vermont, USA
Mastered by Peter Linnane, Patch Hill Mastering
Cover by Ron Liberti

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Lud is a band in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. We started around 1993 and have played shows and recorded records ever since

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